Bergmans Bodyguards in BND

Here we go again! Bergman lies and steals from us again

Take my word for it, Bergman has no body guard!!

In The Know wrote:

Take my word for it, Bergman has no body guard!!

Then he's paying those two clowns for nothing.

It is too funny that this fool is in the paper all the time. My only question is,how in the world did this guy elected mayor?? I have not been here long enough to have voted anyone in, but it seems this was a horrible mistake. Whats is the deal w/a small town mayor needing bodyguards?

In The Know wrote:

Take my word for it, Bergman has no body guard!!

Then in my opinion. They must be cashing the checks and giving him some. The word "kickback" comes to mind. Also I thought that he controlled all the employees. How did he not know what they were doing or the hours they were working?

Yes Frank does have body guards. Why do you suppose they sleep on his couch. Bob Holmes used to be one of Franks butt boys.

Frank knew about the hours these people work. He us just trying to blow smoke up peoples butts.

Frank is a moron and everytime he opens his mouth to the press or anyone else he just reenforces that fact. There has never been security at Parks College. The tax payers have paid for this "security" aka Frank's body guards for several years now. This also helps explain why Chuckie can't do his job during the day as a Code Enforcement Officer, he is just too tired from being at the mayor's hoouse.

Jodie Malone might be the one who needs a bodyguard now. Frankie does not take critism well and he certainly doesn't play fair. Maybe he could take that money from his bodyguards and give it to the police officers. Nah, that would make too much sense. Something Frank has none of.
I just love his remark of "I have never had bodyguards". He does tell a good joke now and then. I wonder when the rats start leaving his sinking ship.

Read it in Black & White. Frank from the beginning has lied threw this teeth & it just goes to show you he believes he is above the law. Personally I think he is lowwer then the slime on the bottom of a snails ass.
http://www.bnd.com/100/story/383110.html
BY BETH HUNDSDORFER AND GEORGE PAWLACZYK
News-Democrat
CAHOKIA --Village payroll records state that employees Charles Robinson and James Allen work an eight-hour shift at their village jobs and then put in another 11 hours providing security at vacant Parks College as the mayor says.
But a current and a former village trustee claim Robinson and Allen are paid the extra money as bodyguards for Mayor Frank Bergman.
Regardless of what, or who, they are guarding, after a work day of that length they would have less than five hours left for eating, washing, running errands and sleeping.
Each was regularly paid an extra $560 per five-day week for 56 hours at $10 per hour, according to payroll invoices.
The former trustee, Ken Spisak, said that Robinson and Allen sometimes slept on the mayor's couch.
But Bergman, who said he was surprised to learn that some village workers were putting in a 96-hour, five-day work week, stated that Robinson and Allen guard only the college property the village has acquired.
"I have never had bodyguards," he said.
The village passed an $8 million bond to finance the purchase of Parks College from St. Louis University in 2005 for $4.73 million. The remaining $3.27 million was set aside for redevelopment. The property, near the intersection of Illinois 3 and Camp Jackson Road, remains vacant.

During three nightly visits and two stops during the day recently, reporters did not spot any security guards or their vehicles. On one nightly check, a reporter drove through the narrow lanes that wind among the former college's 23 buildings, stopping several times to loudly call out, "Hello!"
During another late night trip to the former campus, the only people a reporter encountered was a former Parks alumni from Ballwin, Mo., who roamed the campus in a pickup truck, headlights on, accompanied by a friend in the front seat he said was a Russian fighter jet engineer.
"Everybody in town knows there's no guards out there," said Fred Cornwell, the village's parks director who formerly headed the public works department.
Spisak, who ran unsuccessfully in April 2007 against Bergman for mayor, said Cahokia police officers told him they regularly spotted Robinson and Allen at late hours sitting in vehicles parked outside Bergman's house on Kenneth Avenue. Spisak said officers mentioned that guards sometimes slept on the mayor's couch.
"Apparently, the job is dangerous," Spisak said, "but who can really believe that anybody can keep up a 96-hour work week for any length of time?"
For 18 months before he left the village board after losing the contest for mayor, Spisak said he voted against paying accounts payable because of the security payments to Robinson and Allen.
"The mayor kept telling us they were guards out at Parks College, which is vacant and owned by the village," Spisak said. "That's why I began to write notes about their hours from their time cards, and as soon as I began to do that, the mayor stopped issuing time cards to the Finance Committee."
Current trustee JoAnn Malone also voted against issuing payments for payroll and other accounts in May because she said she was "concerned about those payments to Robinson and Allen."
In a written statement, Malone said, "My reason for voting no on accounts payable is I feel that it is the responsibility of a trustee of the village to curb wasteful and abusive spending.... The village would benefit greatly if this type of fiscal behavior was brought under control."
When asked how two village employees could safely keep up the rigorous pace of a 96-hour work week, Bergman said he didn't know they worked that many hours. He said he has since reduced their work week to 80 hours maximum -- 40 regular hours and 40 extra at $10 per hour.
"When that was pointed out to me, it was adjusted," he said of Allen's and Robinson's work week. "I never noticed that before."
Robinson, who declined to comment, earns $39,500 as a code enforcement officer for the village. Allen earns a salary of $37,000 as a ranger at the village's recreation park and swimming pool. He could not be reached for comment.
John Frycek, a licensed private investigator who provides personal security services, said he charges $65 an hour to protect musicians, former politicians and executives, but added he underwent months of training in hand-to-hand combat, driving techniques and firearm certification.
"What's the threat?" Frycek said. "Would the mayor of a small town's job really put him in danger? If the answer is no, does it warrant having taxpayer money protecting him in his private life?"
Two years ago, Bergman and Harry Halter, who was the husband of his then appointment secretary, argued just after midnight on Bergman's front lawn. Cahokia police used a Taser on Halter, who was then a part-time Alorton police officer, but did not arrest him.
Security didn't thwart a theft in December 2006 that netted thieves $61,500 worth of windows and brass mailbox doors from the former Parks campus. Village employees John Torry and Robert Holmes moonlighted as the campus security then, but no one was on duty at the time because they were off for the Christmas holiday, Bergman said.
Contact reporter Beth Hundsdorfer at bhundsdorfer@bnd.com or 239 -25 70 and George Pawlaczyk at gpawlaczyk@bnd.com or 23 9-26 25.

And lets not forget that Harry Halter's wife is now the Human Resource Director/Water & Sewer Dept Manager. Harry couldn't of been mad at Frank over the fact his wife(Harry's) got ahead in her job could he???? She had to have worked her ass off to prove what a great worker she really is considering everyone else that worked for the city had more education then her including the janitor. Not bad for a person w/an eight grade education w/a GED that she has gotten in the past few years.

Who needs a collage education when you can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.

Under Paid wrote:

Security didn't thwart a theft in December 2006 that netted thieves $61,500 worth of windows and brass mailbox doors from the former Parks campus. Village employees John Torry and Robert Holmes moonlighted as the campus security then, but no one was on duty at the time because they were off for the Christmas holiday, Bergman said.

My question is WHY this wasn't reported, it was no where to be found in any newspaper that I have read, because I would have see & read about it or at least told about it. It also seems convenient that at the same time these two so called security guards were off that this happened. MMMMMMMM, Maybe that's how Holmes moved to Arizona & Frank paid for his trip to see Holmes get married. And since when does security guards take the night off, hell everywhere I have worked that has security guards work 24hrs a day, 7days a week 365days a year, I guess Cahokia is special & they thought they had a no crime Holiday during Christmas.
You would think that the Cahokia Police would have gone to the several scrap yards to see if anyone would have brought that about of scrap brass & aluminum in, because $61,500 worth of scrap is hard to hide. Oh wait that's right Frank owns the police chief & tells him not only how to do his job, but also when to wipe his ass.
I can hardly wait until the smoke clears & we see Frank, Watson, Holmes, Torry and the rest of these thieves(Board Members included) thrown in jail being someone b!tch.

What wrote:

<quoted text>Then in my opinion. They must be cashing the checks and giving him some. The word "kickback" comes to mind. Also I thought that he controlled all the employees. How did he not know what they were doing or the hours they were working?

Ask Ms Halter this question since she is the one who counts up the hrs of the employees time cards & turns in this info so they can get paid.

HELLOO! This is St. Clair County - just look how the whole thing at the golf course & Matt Mueller got swept under the rug! Mike & Rich King are free & enjoying life in Florida! Kenny Spisak "moved on up". Kevin Malone will slip by with his DUI. There are no consequences for certain people.

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My question is WHY this wasn't reported, it was no where to be found in any newspaper that I have read, because I would have see & read about it or at least told about it. It also seems convenient that at the same time these two so called security guards were off that this happened. MMMMMMMM, Maybe that's how Holmes moved to Arizona & Frank paid for his trip to see Holmes get married. And since when does security guards take the night off, hell everywhere I have worked that has security guards work 24hrs a day, 7days a week 365days a year, I guess Cahokia is special & they thought they had a no crime Holiday during Christmas.
You would think that the Cahokia Police would have gone to the several scrap yards to see if anyone would have brought that about of scrap brass & aluminum in, because $61,500 worth of scrap is hard to hide. Oh wait that's right Frank owns the police chief & tells him not only how to do his job, but also when to wipe his ass.
I can hardly wait until the smoke clears & we see Frank, Watson, Holmes, Torry and the rest of these thieves(Board Members included) thrown in jail being someone b!tch.

Riddle me this wrote:

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My question is WHY this wasn't reported, it was no where to be found in any newspaper that I have read, because I would have see & read about it or at least told about it. It also seems convenient that at the same time these two so called security guards were off that this happened. MMMMMMMM, Maybe that's how Holmes moved to Arizona & Frank paid for his trip to see Holmes get married. And since when does security guards take the night off, hell everywhere I have worked that has security guards work 24hrs a day, 7days a week 365days a year, I guess Cahokia is special & they thought they had a no crime Holiday during Christmas.
You would think that the Cahokia Police would have gone to the several scrap yards to see if anyone would have brought that about of scrap brass & aluminum in, because $61,500 worth of scrap is hard to hide. Oh wait that's right Frank owns the police chief & tells him not only how to do his job, but also when to wipe his ass.
I can hardly wait until the smoke clears & we see Frank, Watson, Holmes, Torry and the rest of these thieves(Board Members included) thrown in jail being someone b!tch.

If I am remembering correctly there were 2 employees who supposedly 'solved' the case with their own investigative prowess but isn't it odd that no arrests were ever made? If there were, nothing was ever said about it. The employees were even cited for their actions at one of the board meetings. This whole thing was a set up. There was no 'burglary' only the pilfering of the village property. The so called loot was probably sold off and the money more than likely ended up in the campaign coffers of Mr. Bergman. No way do you 'hire' security guards then give them the night off for the holiday! Yet that was the crap we were all fed! Never believed it for a minute.

Another one wrote:

Kenny Spisak "moved on up".
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WTF does Kenny have to do w/all of this???????
He was the only that had balls to stand up to Frankie & his gang of (yes men/women)board members. He wasn't elected Mayor or any other job w/power. So what if he moved out of Cahokia, does that make him a "bad person".

Never said he was a "bad person". I really don't have an opinion on his character. Just pointing out that there is no "good" politics in St. Clair County. Justice is all about who knows whom - Remember - Kenny, at one time, was one of Frankie's boys and he sure moved on out quickly - didn't stay around to try & help the town he claimed to be so concerned about.

Riddle me this wrote:

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WTF does Kenny have to do w/all of this???????
He was the only that had balls to stand up to Frankie & his gang of (yes men/women)board members. He wasn't elected Mayor or any other job w/power. So what if he moved out of Cahokia, does that make him a "bad person".

BTW - If he had these concerns and questions when he was a trustee - why didn't he speak up then?

Riddle me this wrote:

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WTF does Kenny have to do w/all of this???????
He was the only that had balls to stand up to Frankie & his gang of (yes men/women)board members. He wasn't elected Mayor or any other job w/power. So what if he moved out of Cahokia, does that make him a "bad person".

Another one wrote:

BTW - If he had these concerns and questions when he was a trustee - why didn't he speak up then?
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I don't have an answer for this question.
As for Kenny being one of Franks "boys" at one time is something I didn't know.

Thanks for the info.